Bob Hinshelwood worked for many years in the NHS as a consultant psychotherapist/psychoanalyst, then as Clinical Director of the Cassel Hospital, prior to taking his current post as Professor at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. He is a distinguished academician, with a particular interest in studies of institutional dynamics and analytic history from a developmental perspective as reflected in his many publications.

In the introduction, he spells out the rationale for this book, ‘I want to create something that will balance those textbooks and journals that